I have to go outside sometime this morning. I have to shovel my sidewalks. Again. But before I do that, it has to stop snowing. Again. Here’s your generic “I’m inside today, so I think I’ll go visit OpenCdA and complain about the snow” topic.
March 29, 2008
Spring +9
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Oh, well, I might as well go first! That’s a picture of me, above. It was taken exactly two months ago today, on January 29. That was the highest the berms ever got on either side of my front walkway here in Coeur d’Alene. As of yesterday, nearly all that snow was gone.
My kids were going to leave with their mom on a Spring Vacation trip today. It was cancelled due to the weather. Spring Vacation!
Comment by Dan — March 29, 2008 @ 7:51 am
Dan, don’t start shoveling yet. Go to the Weather for You Radar first. This storm system is relatively small but centered and stalled over CdA.
Comment by Bill — March 29, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Hi Dan, it seemed you needed a shot of sunshine, so I added a warm photo from our trip to Hawaii a few years ago! We’re going to the Gonzaga U. Hawaii Club Luau tonight, just to celebrate the tropical culture. (My husband is from Hawaii.) Maybe it will help us shake off the late winter blues. Think sun.
Comment by mary — March 29, 2008 @ 9:39 am
Should I worry about the Robins? Maybe I’ll go to Black Sheep and buy some worms and put them on top of the 10″ at my place. The least I could do. Also am feeling sorry for Jason, whoever he is, who left a flyer on my door step, wet with snow, advertizing for spring yard services.
Comment by Gary Ingram — March 29, 2008 @ 9:47 am
Mary. With Photoshop, I can make dreams come true:
Comment by Dan — March 29, 2008 @ 10:16 am
I am not here to burst anyone’s bubble – just to bring you all back to reality.
This is a normal winter and we can be blessed that we were not hit with bitter freezing wind chills this year. When the diesel freezes – it really gets ugly or when you get out of a hot tub and your hair freezes; you are then experiencing some real Idaho moments! We have been having Cinderella weather here for way too long. People have forgotton that this area has real winters and thus we may have failed to plan or have settled into a lighter shorter side of winter. This summer might also be back to the real deal when one needs to plan any important events inside and outside and always have a place for cover when it rains! Not if – but when! We will also know it’s really back to normal when the weatherman is always wrong (deliberately) and predicts sunshine for any unsuspecting tourist planning their summer getaway in North Idaho because it will enevitably rain – every weekend – and always on the 4th of July.
Yes, this is the Idaho I remember and one reason I longed for real sunshine and warm hot air, so I moved to Oklahoma – a 5 yr stint – where the grass really is greener, but you can’t camp in the summer there and people die because they can’t afford an air conditioner.
On the bright side? Get ready for next year, K-Mart is having a clearance – all winter hats, mittens etc. are only 99 cents! I also recommend you fire up the barbeque. It’s goog therapy. 🙂
I love this stuff – it makes me HAPPY! 🙂
Comment by Stebbijo — March 29, 2008 @ 10:22 am
That is SO funny, Dan! How did you post the photo within the comment box? You might want to take off your hat and jacket–the cute women on the beach might start to wonder…
Comment by mary — March 29, 2008 @ 10:36 am
Another good sign.
I see that the tulips are blooming. (I want to see if I can do this too!)
Please fix it – if it does not work. Thank you.
Comment by Stebbijo — March 29, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
Darn it anyway! One more time.
Comment by Stebbijo — March 29, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
I took the kids out hookie bobbin in the back field this afternoon. Aint this great! a second winter, or third or fourth. Anyway, all seasons DO come to an end 🙂 eventually. Happy spring? We’re havin’ fun anyway!
Comment by concerned citizen — March 29, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
Let’s hope we don’t get any more snow or the city Coeur d’Alene may have to ask LCDC for money for snow plowing. I’m certain that Spring snow plowing isn’t a high priority for the the city. Although all of the rainy day funds have been spent; maybe we still have snowy day funds. Would somebody please ask Troy Tymeson?
Comment by doubleseetripleeye — March 29, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
I just love that photoshopped picture of Dan in snow gear on the beach in Hawaii. It’s what many of us would hope for (ok, maybe not Concerned Citizen who loves the snow, but I’m old and ready for winter to be over!). We could just close our eyes, click our heels together and appear on the beach…mmmm I can feel the sunshine.
Comment by mary — March 30, 2008 @ 10:36 am
Stebbijo, I’m with you. I enjoy the snowy weather as much as I will enjoy the warmer weather when it arrives. As for this weekend skiff, I’m not complaining. Which, for some reason, seems to irritate the el out of most people.
If I really want to bug someone, I go on and on about how nice it is to have this last blast of winter snow. I extol the virtues of a healthy snow pack. I pontificate about the benefit to our local flora and fauna.
And how pretty it is.
And how completely useless it is to rail against it.
(I actually worry quite a lot about people who bother to hate the snow. My mother hates moose, all moose. Just doesn’t have any use for moose in general, and anything they do is a source of displeasure for her. This frightens me, and gives me cause to wonder about the usefulness of hating weather or wildlife. I think one could really suffer quite alot if one hated something as unavoidable as say -the sky. ‘Oh, fiddlesticks! That sky is out there again today, Virgil’…. )
On another note, the plow came by my place around 7 am yesterday morning which was nice.
-c
Comment by critter — March 30, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Tee hee and evil grin – critter.
Really, this weather is all a plot to move out folks and curtail tourism and big development. Those folks are hostage and codependent on the weather – they need to develop healthier appraches to life and free themselves. All they want to do is bask in the sun during the summer and do nothing but golf, while – in the winter they want a few weeks of snow to get a few runs in, while they belly up to the bar and drink their hot toddies. If there is too much snow they just fly off to their other condominium ’till things dry up. If there is too much rain – they find a better golf course and fly out on their helicopter. I really mourn for some folks who have bought within the last five years or so – they have been duped. What a waste of five million.
The weather will be really back to normal when it does not snow at all in the winter, and it rains like hell in the summer and when you hit the lake, your lungs collapse – so they may not come back. That does happen. Maybe this year – we will get our cake and eat it too, and hopefully at least 4 more yrs after that – things should really get cleaned up! Hopefully housing prices will really dump. Can you imagine the cost of paying for an empty house or condo for FIVE years? This is my latest phase – my study of psychogeography of which I go into more detail on my blog.
I predict – if we have really crummy weather for at least five years – folks will get tired of forking out their vacation money riding a roller coaster in the rain or hitting a rock with their new skis and they won’t come back. However, the weathermen will be good – because they will get paid more money to lie. Many developers will also file bankruptsy.
I love this stuff- it really makes me HAPPY! And, we need more moose running rampant in the streets. A few more buffalo would be good, too. It’s all good eating! 🙂
Comment by Stebbijo — March 30, 2008 @ 6:06 pm